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Chrome Now Accounts For 55% of All Web Browsing (hothardware.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the cutting-Edge dept.

Google's Chrome browser "now accounts for more than half of all desktop browser usage and has nearly double the market share of Edge and Internet Explorer combined," reports Hot Hardware: Market research firm Net Applications has Chrome sitting pretty with a 54.99% share of the desktop browser market, up from 31.12% at this moment a year ago, while Internet Explorer and Edge combine for 28.39 percent and Firefox stuck at around 11%. Even more interesting is that when Windows 10 launched to the public at the end of July 2015, Chrome had a 27.82% share of the market while IE still dominated the landscape with a 54% share. Now the script has flipped.
Just six months ago, the same research firm reported Chrome with a 41.66%, share barely beating Microsoft's 41.35%.

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  1. Re:bing by rudy_wayne · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously Firefox needs to be made to look even more like Chrome.

  2. Re:Windows browser? by xeoron · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Vivaldi formed by the former founder of Opera web browser. Uses the Chrome's Blink rendering engine and supports Chrome Extensions. Vivaldi website

  3. Am I the Only One Not Okay With This? by rsmith-mac · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Quick check: am I the only person not okay with Chrome overtaking the browser market?

    Though I am greatly appreciative of breaking up the homoogenous (and semi-proprietary) web that IE left us with, I'm afraid we've replaced one devil with an even greater devil. Now the most widely used browser is developed by a company whose very existence is dependent on user profiling and advertising sales.

    Google borders on being anti-user these days. The web they create is technically advanced, but it's also one that's been optimized to deliver ads, to strip control from users in the name of simplicity and to support Google's revenue stream. It gives Google an incredible amount of power - more than anyone else ever before - as they have laid the groundwork to see exactly what their customers are doing on the Web. That's a power I fear they're not capable of wielding wisely anymore.

    At least MS just wanted to sell you a copy of Windows every few years; Google wants to sell you each and every day to the highest bidder.

  4. Re:all your searches are belong to us by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think Google made Chrome was to help drive the internet the way they wanted it to go (you can take that however you want). Google is a company that depends entirely on internet technology to supply their services. I'd guess they weren't comfortable leaving that client-side connectivity to their services in the hands of other companies, some of them competitors. So, I believe that by creating their own browser, they were attempting to control their own destiny rather than leaving it to middlemen.

    We see today Google using Chrome to experiment with new web technologies to improve connection speed via new standards extensions, advanced security issues, research projects, ensure standards compliance, and many other things. To me, I see it as a same way a company that makes products with Linux installed on it would probably make contributions to the Linux kernel. Not altruistic, certainly, but also not nefarious.

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  5. no thanks by markdavis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Chrome:

    * Closed Source: Check!
    * Closed Development: Check!
    * Google Spyware: Check!
    * Most Restricted UI: Check!

    Edge/IE are even worse because they only run on MS-Windows. No thanks, I will continue to use Firefox. Open source, open development, most addons. That doesn't mean Firefox doesn't have its issues... the biggest of which is TRYING TO TURN INTO CHROME!

    1. Re:no thanks by markdavis · · Score: 3, Insightful

      >"And yet, none of the ways it is "trying to turn into chrome" are on your list of the 4 reasons to avoid chrome. So, what exactly is the problem?"

      With Mozilla/Firefox? That they keep removing and hiding things in the UI trying to make it so-called "clean" like Chrome. Then, worse, changing stuff and then removing the options to revert the changes. Now you have to load an addon (Classic Theme Restorer) to get some of the stuff back. Want a specific example? How about tabs-on-bottom, like they are supposed to be. Then there is all the crap they DO add that we don't want... like "hello" and "developer view" and "pocket"; all things that should clearly be addons.

      The UI problem with Chrome is the arrogance of the design along with the lack of user choice. The lack of control is infamous and runs through all Google's apps and Android too (IOS is the same way). Firefox was never that way until Chrome came on the scene and then Firefox started mimicking Chrome more and more. That is my big beef with Mozilla/Firefox.

      I don't want "clean" menus.
      I don't want "hamburger" menus.
      I don't want auto-hiding scrollbars.
      I don't want tabs on the top.
      I don't want the browser "refreshing" my settings.
      I don't want frequent site icons cluttering my blank newpage.
      I don't want my option for the addon bar removed.
      I don't want inactive tabs not looking like a tab.

      And, yet, I still think Firefox is the "best" browser for all the reasons I have previously stated. One thing is for sure- it is nice to have choices. The idea of any one browser taking over and becoming the de-facto again is truly repulsive. I look at Chrome and hope it is not just the new "IE."

  6. SImple reason its not firefox: group policy by n3r0.m4dski11z · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would love to make firefox the default browser in my company. However mozilla has zero interest in that. While chrome provides MSI's and group policy templates to tie the whole thing together, enforce custom settings, etc.

    Firefox how to deploy faq: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Deplo... (note the two most important links are broken and defunct)

    google how to deploy faq: https://support.google.com/chr... (and many other webpages, but you dont even need instructions because its teh same as every other well designed software package from a major corporation)

    Its been like this for literally years. Mozilla simply does not care about centralized policy management or deployment.

    Firefox is the best web browser by far and much more stable, and less ram hungry than chrome, so its sad for me. Until i can push out adblock and firefox with a customized home page in 30 minutes to 200 workstations its not going to be standard on my network.

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